"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

— Paul Valéry (1871–1945)

@stux i love this

@kmmfoo @stux

A variation that I forget the source of:

"War is fought between poor young men, who don't know each other, on behalf of rich old men, who know each other well."

@purrperl @kmmfoo @stux

Okay, but the presence of the words "young" and "old" is in bad taste.